Commodity Production Costs
Nitrile Gloves Production
This report presents the economics of Nitrile Gloves production from nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) latex. In this process, hand-shaped formers are dipped in a bath of NBR latex. The latex is deposited on the former, which subsequently enters a curing oven where it is submitted to high temperatures to be cured. The gloves are then dipped in a polymer dispersion bath to apply a coating, cooled and, finally, stripped out of the formers. The economic analysis performed assumes a plant located in the United States.